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That’s a matter of taste. Cannabis gives me terrible anxiety even if I breath it from someone next to me. While beer (good ales that is) I find lovely and the e
by anonzzzies 2y ago
That’s a matter of taste. Cannabis gives me terrible anxiety even if I breath it from someone next to me. While beer (good ales that is) I find lovely and the effect is nice and slow and continues.
Also, personally I saw more people falling of things and getting wounded on too much cannabis than alcohol. I (from NL) have a friend who smoked a bunch of spliffs before his factory shift and now he has no right arm; he simply dozed off and his arm got caught in the machine. They had to amputate.
- garbagewoman 2y agoWhat was the machine?
- anonzzzies 2y agoThis was the early 90s so I wouldn’t know the brand or anything, but it was a machine that made metal sheet into cylinders. I wasn’t there but I was in the train he rode that morning when you could smoke spliffs in the train.
- hackernewds 2y agoThe comparison comments (including yours) are a false dichotomy. Your friend would not have an arm remaining even if he were to have subbed with alcohol. However he would if neither. So it's less a question of what's better.
- addicted 2y agoThis may not be an alcohol vs marijuana thing directly, but the social pressure against being drunk on the job is significantly higher than the social pressure against being stoned.
- anonzzzies 2y agoSure but in NL when I lived there it was fairly normal to be stoned in uni or at work; drunk was weird.
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- a2800276 2y agoI believe there's a general consensus that you shouldn't operate heavy machinery if you are impaired in any way, be it alcohol, pot or OTC antihistamines.
- anonzzzies 2y agoSure, just saying I personally know more cannabis accidents. Not saying it’s because it’s worse; it’s just statement of fact for what I have seen in my life.
- tempodox 2y agoI never heard of lethal traffic accidents because of cannabis, but lots of those because of alcohol.
- anonzzzies 2y agoYeah, did you read the word personally in my comments?
- tempodox 2y agoAre you saying him working intoxicated by alcohol would have been safer?
- anonzzzies 2y agoNo, I say that, and getting tired of typing this now, I personally know more people hurt or dead because of cannabis than alcohol. It’s a statement of a fact of my life. YMMV obviously. I was raised in a town where stoned vastly outstripped alcohol. Not saying, unlike you, one is better than the other and I prefer alcohol (well, beer), but i definitely know more cannabis injuries and deaths than alcohol so let’s not say it’s harmless.